US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on April 14 for "Providing a repository of audio files having pronunciations for text strings to provide to a speech synthesizer" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,079, issued on April 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Providing a repository of audio files having pronunciations for text strings to provide to a speech synthesizer" was invented by Jun Su (Beijing), Yang Liang (Beijing), Terry James Hoffman (Austin, Texas) and Su Liu (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for providing a repository of audio files having pronunciations for text strings to provide to a speech synthesizer. The repository has data structures for text strings in documents. A data structure for a text string indi...